This was by far the most positive commercial with a foreigner that I could find. This is a cross-promositional commercial for Natchan! juice drink and Natalie Emmons. In Japanese nicknames are usually the shortening of the first name and adding some sort of identifies at the end, such as kun or chan. So Natalie's name would be shortened to Nat-chan just like the drink. Natalie is a White American singer who sing in Japanese. This commercial displayed not only her ability to sing in Japanese but the fact that she is fluent in the language, even interacting with her Japanese director offscreen. These types of commercials are rare and hopefully in the future will become more of the norm.
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